Decision Making for Business

A Reader

AvGraeme Salaman

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

Del i serien Published in association with The Open University

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Beskrivning

In this book, Graeme Salaman gathers the best contributions to our understanding of decision-making and assembles them to form a coherent and sustained analysis of the key factors that influence decision making. The selected articles are stimulating, provocative and analytical, resulting in a critical and comprehensive analysis of decision making.

Decision-making for Business presents essential readings concerned with the importance of decisions, the processes of decision-making, and the implications of `flawed' decision-making. The book reveals ways in which patterns of decision-making can be described and explained, and how these patterns require the use of a range of theories, which are included in the selection. This work is designed as a resource for anyone seeking an understanding of the changing nature of organizations and the world of business.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-08-15
Mått:189 x 246 x 19 mm
Vikt:650 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Published in association with The Open University
Antal sidor:278
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9780761974116

Utforska kategorier

Affärsstrategi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Graeme Salaman is Professor of Organization Studies at the Open University Business School

Recensioner i media

excellent resource for qualitative aspects of decision making; would benefit by a more creative layout (i.e. colour, boxed examples/cases); would also be beneficial to include in future edition a concluding chapter which summarises the overarching themes of this reader

Innehållsförteckning

SECTION ONE: THE ANATOMY OF DECISION-MAKINGA Perfect Failure - Irving L JanisThe Bay of Pigs Anatomy of a Fatal Business Strategy - Erhard K ValentinA Summary of Basic Concepts in the Behavioural Theory of the Firm - Richard M Cyert and James G MarchDecision-Making in Organizations - Susan Miller, David Hickson and David WilsonSECTION TWO: UNDERSTANDING DECISION MAKING: UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONSDecision-Making as a Political Process - Andrew M PettigrewThe Irrationality of Action and Action Rationality - Nils BrunssonIdeologies and Organizational ActionsThe Hospital and Its Negotiated Order - A Strauss, L Scatzman, D Ehrlich, R Bucher and M SabsinThe Practicalities of Rule Use - Don ZimmermanSECTION THREE: THINKING IN ORGANIZATIONSStrategic Management in an Enacted World - Linda Smircich and Charles StubbartThe Role of Managerial Learning and Interpretation in Strategic Persistence and Re-Orientation - Theresa K Lant, Frances J Milliken and Bipin BatraAn Empirical ExplorationThe Cognitive Perspective on Strategic Decision-Making - Charles R SchwenkThe Impact of Organizational Culture on Approaches to Organizational Problem-Solving - Paul BateSECTION FOUR: THE SOCIETAL CONTEXT OF ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION-MAKINGOrganizational Forms - Nils Brunsson and Johan P OlsenCan We Choose Them?The Cult(ure) of the Customer - Paul Du Gay and Graeme SalamanManagerialism and Social Welfare - Janet NewmanFrom Decision to Action in Organizations - Herv[ac]e LarocheDecision-Making as a Social Representation